Joined: Dec 22 2001 Posts: 32126 Location: The Corridor of Uncertainty
It’ll be interesting to see the squad for this one given we’ll be without Laithwaite, Gibson and Keyes for sure and both Bustin and McNally seemed to limp off on Sunday.
Lilley to play for sure I reckon and Pickersgill back. Hopefully Smith in the centres too.
"If you start listening to the fans it won't be long before you're sitting with them," - Wayne Bennett.
I'd personally wield the axe on a couple. Not turning up for York but hammering Skolars proves nothing and doesn't make up for the bad performance. Even though we could do with hammering them TBH.
I'd go:
Mcnally Ricketts Smith Oakes Ryan Lilley Chisholm Crossley Flanagan Wood Minchella Garside Hallas
Halafihi Green Peltier Pickersgill
Whoever kear chooses though, he can't put Hallas in at hooker.
Joined: Jun 22 2005 Posts: 9554 Location: bradford
Bull Mania wrote:I'd personally wield the axe on a couple. Not turning up for York but hammering Skolars proves nothing and doesn't make up for the bad performance. Even though we could do with hammering them TBH.
don't think we can afford to experiment too much. We need to put out strongest team each week and 'hammer' as many teams as possible as points difference is all important now and York will be looking to do the same.
8 games left and 92 points York need to make up. That means they have to make up 11.5 points each week.
We simply have to go out and be ruthless in every match, play our best players in each and make sure we outscore York from the word go. If that means playing some of the guys from this weeks game who want to go out and prove a point/make up for the defeat then so be it.
Every week we outscore them the total they then have to outscore us by increases and it gets harder and harder for them to catch us.
This week we have Skolars and they have Coventry, 11th and 12th in the League.
Joined: Jan 10 2013 Posts: 3546 Location: No longer Bradford
psychostring wrote:8 games left and 92 points York need to make up. That means they have to make up 11.5 points each week.
We simply have to go out and be ruthless in every match, play our best players in each and make sure we outscore York from the word go. If that means playing some of the guys from this weeks game who want to go out and prove a point/make up for the defeat then so be it.
Every week we outscore them the total they then have to outscore us by increases and it gets harder and harder for them to catch us.
This week we have Skolars and they have Coventry, 11th and 12th in the League.
The Points Difference can change so quickly in this division when you have utter and total wastes of a league place like West Wales and Hemel, who should be playing at a lower level until they can at least slightly compete.
York: Coventry (h), North Wales (h), West Wales (a), Hunslet (h), Workington (a), Oldham (h), Hemel (a), Whitehaven (h)
Bradford: London (a), Whitehaven (h), North Wales (a), Workington (h), Keighley (h), West Wales (a), Oldham (a), Hemel (h)
York haven't won in Cumbria since 1842 or something like that. Oldham on a good day are are a dangerous team, on a bad day they are poor. For York I think it all hinges on finally winning in Cumbria and making sure there are no slip ups against Oldham while posting a cricket score against some of the lower teams. I'm fairly confident against Hunslet and Whitehaven at home.
For Bradford, again the Oldham match is the difficult one. I think Keighley have lost too many players to challenge you at Odsal, even if they'll be fired up.
If I was a betting man I'd say Bradford to finish top and York to go up through the playoffs.
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